More whine, less cheese…please!

Sigh. Matthew Tully doesn’t even attempt to hide his bias.

I could go on and on. Sunday and Monday, stories told of twentysomething men being gunned down. Tuesday’s headline summed it up: “Indianapolis has seen 8 slayings in 8 days.”

Day after day, just like every summer, Indianapolis has been filled with gun violence. So what do we do?

I posed that question to Paul Helmke, the former Republican mayor of Fort Wayne who now leads the Brady Center to Prevent Gun Violence. Helmke spends his days pushing what he calls, and I agree are, “sensible gun laws” at a time when the political will for such is as weak as it’s ever been.

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Media Bias Strikes Again

Yet another biased article, this time from ABC News.

Virginia Tech Gun Dealer Offers Student Discount

Dealer Says Campuses Safer If Students Can Protect Themselves

By MADDY SAUER

The owner of an Internet-based firearms store that sold a gun to Virginia Tech shooter Seung-Hui Cho says he is now offering a discount for students who want to carry guns on campus to protect themselves. The company, TGSCOM Inc., also sold two 9mm Glock magazines to Steven Kazmierczak, who killed five people at Northern Illinois University earlier this year.

The owner of TGSCOM, Eric Thompson, announced today that for the next two weeks he will sell firearms at cost in the hopes of targeting students who may be on a tight budget. Customers will have over 5,400 different kinds of firearms from which to choose.

“This offer allows students and people who might not have otherwise been able to afford a weapon to purchase one at a hefty discount and at a significant expense to myself,” Thompson told ABCNews.com.

A spokesperson for Virginia Tech said that Thompson’s remarks and offer are “incredibly insensitive to the families of the victims who lost loved ones, and to the injured students still recovering from this horrendous tragedy,” said Larry Hincker, the Associate Vice President for University Relations.

You know what’s really insensitive and offensive Larry, is your continuing insistence that your students remain defenseless even after what transpired on your Utopian campus. Geez, what a bozo.

Gun control advocates also call Thompson’s special offer “shameless”.

“He’s arming the criminals and then telling the rest of us to buy guns so we can protect ourselves from the criminals he’s armed,” said Peter Hamm, communications director for the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence.

While gun control advocates acknowledge that Thompson has a right to make this offer, they say this is yet another example of the gun industry trying to profit from gun violence.

“What this shows is that to the gun industry, gun violence is at best an abstract concept and at worst a business opportunity,” said Josh Sugarmann, the Executive Director of the Violence Policy Center.

“No matter how these products are used against citizens, the answer is always more guns when in fact these problems stem from the fact that there are too many guns out there already,” Sugarmann told ABCNews.com.

He’s arming the criminals? Sure he is Petey. I don’t think many criminals are buying guns from a legitimate business owner who is required by law to do a background check on his customers, and then ships them to a local FFL for pickup. Petey, you’re lying out your ass and you know it. You too Josh. First of all, how is him selling the sidearms at cost making a profit? Apparently Josh is also under the delusion criminals buy their guns from honest business owners. Why do the anti-rights people feel the need to lie to try and make their point? Could it be they know they don’t have a leg to stand on? I’ve been told that if one lies enough, they actually begin to believe the lie, instead of the truth.

There’s more, but it’s basically a rehash of the same anti-rights talking points. They give Thompson a token paragraph or two, but bash him in the end with a sound bite from Petey Hamm and anti-rights bigot Larry Hincker.

Go read, if you have the stomach for it.

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What a Sanctimonious Tool!

This guy really pisses me off. This from a story done on him on the SFGate site. How fitting that his last name is ‘Ricker’.

About eight years ago, Ricker began crafting more explicit works, including a “Gun Coffin,” a box-shaped frame composed of distorted guns welded together. The piece includes curving AK-47s Ricker purchased from a Czech arms dealer, a pancake-flat .357 Magnum allegedly owned by Hunter S. Thompson, a .38 Special from a former San Francisco police officer and a pearl-plated pistol once carried by an officer in the Italian National Fascist Party.

“If you have a gun, you have to envision who you’re going to kill,” Ricker said. “I want people to think about who they think it’s OK to shoot, and where that puts them morally.”

How about someone trying to kill me or a loved one? Oh, I forgot, idiots like this don’t believe it’s right to defend yourself. *spits* How about the mentality of this brain donor who took a classic 1911, over 100 years old, to this idiot to destroy, even though his uncle had wanted it to stay in the family.

After Heath Maddox’s father died unexpectedly in 2006, Maddox was clearing out his dad’s belongings when he found a surprise: a U.S. military-issued .45-caliber handgun wrapped in a towel and tucked into a kitchen drawer.

Maddox vaguely recalled a story about his grandfather owning the gun, but he wasn’t sure why, or how, it turned up in his father’s kitchen.

Yet on a recent Friday evening, two years after the discovery, Maddox stood inside artist John Ricker’s San Francisco studio, ready to smash the gun flat with a sledgehammer.

“My uncle wanted to keep it in the family,” said Maddox, a planner in the city’s transportation agency, before he delivered the first blow. “But I knew about John and what he does with guns. … I wanted it destroyed.”

All I can say is, how disrespectful! This would be like me taking my dead grandfathers guitar, cutting it apart and making “art” out of the pieces. What a disgraceful thing to do! The least he could have done was give it to the Uncle who wanted it instead of taking it to this butcher to destroy.

Hmmm… Looks like the Butcher has a website. Some select quote from his site:

Guns kill. In the countryside hunter kill their prey. In the city and suburbs guns are for killing people. Guns create hate.

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Donate your gun to Guns Into Art before the gun kills somebody you love.

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Hate groups love guns. Go to a gun show and you will see Neo-Nazi groups recruiting under the banner of gun owner rights. Timothy McVeigh stole and sold guns at gun shows.

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Then I ask most white male gun owners who it is they think they may need to shoot in self defense they will speak directly of blacks or Hispanics or use code words like “Gang Banger”, but in general, the person they image they may need to shoot has darker skin then theirs.

Our national gun fetish and increasing racism go hand in hand. You just can not have a decent society when a significant portion of the population is walking around thinking who it is ok to kill. It just is not neighborly.

Rape, robbery and murder are not neighborly either. Of course that’s assuming gun owners walk around thinking about who they want to kill. Project much John?

I take great exception to the bile this gun bigot is spewing. I will admit to being white and male, but I’ve never fantasized about killing brown skinned people. I’ve never belonged to a racist organization. There are racists who own guns, but that doesn’t make every gun owner a racist. Correlation does not equal causation. I have also never seen racists recruiting at gun shows. I think he’s lying. I’ve never hunted or killed anyone, but I will do whatever I need to do to keep my family safe, no matter what their skin color is. Criminal, just like Muslim, is not a race.

Anyway, I’ve wasted enough electrons on this bigot. Go read the article, check out his site…comment if you want. I was surprised to see almost a 98% negative reaction to the story in the comments. This is good, but doesn’t help anything, unfortunately.

Ah, looky here….his site has a forum…

(h/t) Xavier.

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